Since every one else is doing it, I may as well too. Here are my predictions for 2008:

• Mixx will be the next Digg. Mixx is like Digg with groups - and I think it will take off pretty quickly. The only problem with a small company (Mixx) taking on a big one (Digg), is that Digg could easily develop and add the features that Mixx has, and leave them with nothing. Either way, I think Mixx will give Digg a hard time.
• Apple will launch a camera at MacWorld in January, as well as the ultra portable laptops everyone has been talking about.
• Facebook's momentum will slow down.
• I will launch something big.
• I will blog more (hopefully).
• More devices will be internet connected - WiFi will be in things that we wouldn't expect, but will still be useful.

I'm not going to get too carried away because I know that most of these will not happen.  Personally, I think that 2008 is going to be a very important and exciting year and can't wait to see what happens.

Thanks to the Google reader shared items and the twitter widgets, you can now see all the links I find interesting as well as keep up to date with what I'm doing. You can also subscribe to my shared items, twitter, and this site too.

Twitter Widget Too Slow

Twitter is a good service, but it has been having growing pains even after they got some VC money. The twitter widget showing my updates slows the site significantly. Ah JavaScript widgets, what would the speed of the internet be like without you?

Typical Firebug output:

Twitter seems to go between .5 of a second and 2.5 seconds, with an average of ~1.3 seconds. I guess my next quick project will cache my twitter updates every 15 minutes to this sites database, rather than requesting it from twitter at every page load.

The obligatory first post of DavidJeffries.com. This blog is intended as a place for me to put my ramblings about the internet, programming, and anything else that interests me.

A little about myself: I am graduating with a Bachelors of Computer Information Systems in April 2008. In my spare time I work for a small software development company, as well as on my own projects.

Thats pretty much it about me, I'm sure I will put some more stuff in here as time goes by.